..It's in your hands...
> >John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and
> >always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he
was
> >doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"
> >
> >He was a natural motivator.
> >
> >If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the employee
> >how to look on the positive side of the situation.
> >
> >Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and asked
> >him, "I don't get it!
> >
> >You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"
> >
> >He replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two
choices
> >today. You can choose to be in a good mood or ... you can choose to be in
a
> >bad mood.
> >
> >I choose to be in a good mood."
> >
> >Each time something bad happens, I can choose to b e a victim or...I can
> >choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.
> >
> >Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their
> >complaining or... I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the
> >positive side of life.
> >
> >"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested.
> >
> >"Yes, it is," he said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all
> >the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to
> >situations. You choose how people affect your mood.
> >
> >You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your
> >choice how you live your life."
> >
> >I reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry to
> >start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when
I
> >made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.
> >
> >Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious accident,
> >falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.
> >
> >After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released
from
> >the hospital with rods placed in his back.
> >
> >I saw him about six months after the accident.
> >
> >When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be
> >twins...Wanna see my scars ?"
> >
> >
> >I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his
> >mind as the accident took place.
> >
> >"The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my
> >soon-to-be born daughter," he replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground, I
> >remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or...I could
> >choose to die. I chose to live."
> >
> >"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked.
> >
> >He continued, "..the paramedics were great.
> >
> >They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me
into
> >the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses,
I
> >got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man'. I knew I
needed
> >to take action."
> >
> >"What did you do?" I asked.
> >
> >"Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said John.
> >"She asked if I was allergic to anything. 'Yes, I replied.' The doctors
and
> >nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath
> >and yelled, 'Gravity'."
> >
> >Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on me
as
> >if I am alive, not dead."
> >He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his
> >amazing attitude... I learned from him that every day we have the choice
to
> >live fully.
> >
> >Attitude, after all, is everything.
I received this today...Gmail...I have only words to offer... hope it might help you Barry and anyone else for that matter..
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